Seminar conducted at SAFAA on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death
September 14th is marked as the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death; the greatest Italian thinker, poet and philosopher of the Italian Renaissance era. During his lifetime, in late medieval era, the language of poetry and literature was Italian that was available to limited layers of society, the educated and wealthy class. His most famous literary work “Divine Comedy” is one of the masterpieces of world literature…
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Launching September
So here is another day in a year different from all the others with mainly schoolchildren in uniforms and students seen at streets in the morning that evokes many memories. There is a beautiful tradition established at State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia related to the very day; meeting and greeting first-year students, newcomers, a tradition that was unfortunately broken the previous year by the pandemic situation…
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Another Session of SAFAA Scientific Council
On August 31 a regular session of Scientific Council of State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia was held. The following questions were on the agenda…
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Cultural Dialogue
Nearly a month ago a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia and Fine Arts Academy of Tehran in favor of further development of relations of both countries. Less than a month later the first project of cooperation came to life in the form of an interesting exhibition of the works of Iranian artists held at SAFAA hall. Overall 70 works were exhibited, the majority of them being portraits among which the ones of elderly people were impressive; outlining the wrinkles and lines traced by years…
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Monitoring of INCLUSION project
National Erasmus+ office in Armenia conducted a regular monitoring of Inclusion project, its impact and evolved activities at SAFAA upon the project termination. Sharing of best practice and dissemination were also touched upon…
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SAFAA held entrance examinations
Through 2-6 of July, 2021 SAFAA successfully held entrance examinations in 9 specialties of Bachelor programme; painting, sculpture, graphics, art studies, design, interior design, computer graphics, fashion design and applied arts…
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Abbas Badakhshan Zohouri, “Strong Armenia is the pride offriendly Iran”
We experience historical times crucial for our country, our nation. The geographic location of our country has had a decisive role throughout our history. In the current geopolitical developments, in the defeated post-war situation we need to be extremely vigilant and realistic in foreign diplomatic relationship in particular…
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Romanian Professor Vlad Toca hosted at SAFAA
Two students from SAFAA, one from Fine Arts faculty, the other one from Design and Decorative Applied Arts faculty and one lecturer from Art Studies chair have visited the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2019 and 2020 and respectively got acquainted with the university and teaching methods. The gradual decrease of pandemic numbers allowed the International office of SAFAA to acquire mutual visit actualization. It’s already a week that Professor Vlad Toca from the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca has visited SAFAA to conduct lectures. He delivered two lectures at SAFAA on the themes “An overview of Romanian and/or Transylvanian art, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries”, “Avant-garde art in Romania between the two world wars”, “Art in Romania from the 1960’s to 1989” and “Art in Romania after 1989; The case of the “School of Cluj”…
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Competition organized by French Embassy in Armenia
On 7th of June an event- awarding ceremony took place in the garden of French Embassy in Armenia. This year State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia participated in the events entitled “Crossed glances” and “Dis-moi dix mots qui (ne) manquent pas d’air” organized by French Embassy in Armenia…
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Childhood Dream
The thing that it’s not easy to enter the world of children, that they perceive the same reality in a completely different way and that we do not understand and maybe don’t attach much importance to it, is a fact; we just name it the planet of childhood and get satisfied with that name. We simply love them. It’s obligatory to listen to them, keep them in the centre of attention. They need our defence․․․
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